Maya Corry News Today

Renaissance artists routinely used men as models for their depictions of female subjects, yet only the musculatures of Michelangelo tell that story.

Leonardo da Vinci, as played by Aidan Turner in new period drama Leonardo, is a man out of his time. He imagines the world from above, sees pioneering cinematic compositions on blank walls, designs war machines that will not be fully realised by other minds until centuries later. Yet this Leonardo is also erratic, and hamstrung by his quest for perfection. Advertisement It is true that the painter often delayed and procrastinated, taking years to complete many of his famous works and leaving ...